West Lothian Sumdog Contest Starts Today!
Sumdog’s West Lothian Maths Contest is here! It finishes at 8pm on Thursday 19th November.Here are some things to keep in mind during the contest:
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We still need a few more players in each class to join the leaderboard!
Autumn in our Nursery
Term 1 Celebration Awards
Our Term 1 Celebration Assembly was a bit different this term but we still managed to celebrate those children who have had achievements in STEM or Writing. Congratulations to everyone who received an award Their photo is also on our iAchieve Hall of Fame!
Congratulations to our Awesome Authors!
Congratulations to our STEM Superstars!
Congratulations to those children who came first in their classes in the Maths Week Scotland, National Sum Dog Celebration.
Primary 3/2: Maths Week Scotland
This week, Primary 3/2 were doing some investigation work in maths!
We looked at how to partition the number 10 in different ways.
We did this by:
- using drawing to make sets of 10 dots into smaller groups
- used knowledge of our number bonds to make pairs
- used cuisenaire rods to find out combinations of blocks that were equal to 10
- used ten frames to split/combine different groups
We came up with lots of different ideas, from number bonds (5 +5, 6 +4) to slightly more complex combinations (4 + 4 + 2, 1 + 1 + 1+ 1+ 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1). Miss McLaughlin saw lots of great teamwork!
Congratulations to our class, who placed in the top 2000 classes for the West Lothian Sumdog Competition. Well done to Callum for earning his Sumdog award too!
Check in with us next time to see what we have been learning!
Primary 3/2 & Miss M 🙂
Primary 1 Maths Week Scotland
This week we have been completing lots of different activities to further develop our numeracy skills. We have been practising counting, sequencing and recognising number patterns to 20. We have also been exploring addition by counting two groups of objects to find the total and practising adding one to a number. We have been looking at the symbols for add and equals and have begun using these in our written work.
P2/1 Maths Week Scotland
This week P2/1 have been busy in maths.
P1 have been counting different objects , then adding one and two more, and checking the new amount. Primary 2 have been developing their understanding of how numbers are constructed and have been making 2 digit numbers using different concrete materials, We have also been skip counting in 2’s and 10’s.
P4/3 Our Local Community Topic
In our local community topic we have been identifying places where we live and belong to in Pumpherston and Uphall. We surveyed the class and created graphs to show the most visited places. P4/3 have also created maps of the area using grid references as a link to mathematics. At the moment we are focusing on sketching and designing a new building for the area. Coming up we will be using our plans as well as lego and other building materials to construct these buildings.
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P4 Local Community IDL
As part of our Local Community IDL topic we have been exploring mapping and grid references. We used Google maps to find out about the local area and highlighted how land has been used on a map of the local area. Today we went outside to work on shape, position and movement. We used positional language to give and follow instructions about how to move to a specific place on the grid.
Maths Week Scotland Contest – runs from 25th September to 1st October
